Pitman v. Yazoo & M. v. R.

Appellant brought this action against the TurnerFarber Lumber Company and appellee, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, in the circuit court of Washington county to recover damages for an injury received by him while loading freight, as a servant of the lumber company, on one of appellee’s flat cars, such injury alleged to have been caused by the defective condition of the car. Before the trial, the case Avas dismissed as to' the lumber company; there followed a trial as to appellee, resulting in a directed verdict for it; judgment was accordingly entered, from which, judgment…